African history

This edited volume focuses on aspects of the understudied theme of African sea-power, including African navies and the engagement of non-African navies with the continent.

This book contributes to the debate over the culpability of the Trans-Atlantic Slave from various disciplinary perspectives.

This book aims to reconstruct the religious history of the Anlo-Ewe peoples from the 1850s.

This title was originally published in 1971.

This rich collection of biographies of African men and women adds a crucial human dimension to our understanding of African history since 1800.

In many instances, the colonial state has left a strong imprint on the postcolonial archive.

A new history of twentieth-century North Africa, that gives voice to the musicians who defined an era and the vibrant recording industry that carried their popular sounds from the colonial period through decolonization.

The idea that the period of social turbulence in the nineteenth century was a consequence of the emergence of the powerful Zulu kingdom under Shaka has been written about extensively as a central episode of southern African history.

Originally published in 1981, this book took a position which was unpopular within the academic establishment at the time of its publication.

Curating Transcultural Spaces asks what a museum which enables the presentation of multiple perspectives might look like.

This book looks at the third pillar of resistance to British colonialism , people,s resistance, the others being Mau Mau and radical trade union movement.

This edited volume encompasses a range of themes and approaches relevant to the field of South African history today, as viewed from the perspective of practicing historians at the cutting edge of research in the discipline.

Exploring the entwined histories of British royal visits to Southern Africa in the twentieth century, this book analyses the clashing voices of dissent and cheering crowds that accompanied royal tours, providing insight into the shifting nature of 'Black loyalism.

Following thirty years of research, including research into recently declassified government archives, this newly revised and expanded edition of Linda Melvern's classic of investigative journalism reveals how policymakers continue to refuse to properly acknowledge their responsibilities under international law.

"e;Africa for the Africans"e; was the name given in Africa to the extraordinary black social protest movement led by Jamaican Marcus Mosiah Garvey (1887-1940).

Demonstrates the importance of the first interim governments in shaping the trajectory of political transition in Tunisia and Libya after the 2011 uprisings.

When Breeze FM, a radio station in the provincial Zambian town of Chipata, hired an elderly retired schoolteacher in 2003, no one anticipated the skyrocketing success that would follow.

Throughout the Cold War, Africa was a theatre for superpower rivalry.

In the context of a global biometric turn, this book investigates processes of legal identification in Africa 'from below,' asking what this means for the relationship between citizens and the state.

The Republic of Therapy tells the story of the global response to the HIV epidemic from the perspective of community organizers, activists, and people living with HIV in West Africa.

In Managing Vulnerability, Richard C.

Harold Macmillan's 'Wind of Change' speech, delivered to the South African parliament in Cape Town at the end of a landmark six-week African tour, presaged the end of the British Empire in Africa.

The revolt against white rule in Rhodesia nurtured incipient local feminisms in women who imagined independence as a road to gender equity and economic justice.

Children Enslaved, first published in 1988, reveals the full extent of child slavery throughout the world.

Sexual Selection in Primates is a comprehensive summary of primate sexual interactions.

A Commonwealth of Knowledge addresses the relationship between social and scientific thought, colonial identity, and political power in nineteenth- and twentieth-century South Africa.

This book examines the various factors that have influenced the growth and development process of contemporary Africa.

As a field of research, settler colonial studies has developed dynamically in recent years.

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Offering nuanced insights into violence, humanitarian protection, gender relations, and coping of refugees in a Ugandan refugee camp.

The majority of scholarly conceptions of the Mediterranean focus on the sea's northern shores, with its historical epicentres of Spain, France or Italy.

This book examines the Empire's Patriotic Fund, established in Victoria, Australia, in 1901 to assist the dependants of the men serving in the Boer War and the men invalided home because of wounds or illness.

Here, Daniel Zisenwine looks at Tunisia under the rule of Ben Ali, from 1987 when he rose to power until the 2011 protests that led to his downfall.

This book offers the first comprehensive history of white workers from the end of the First World War to Zimbabwean independence in 1980.

For over a century, plant specialists worldwide have sought to transform healing plants in African countries into pharmaceuticals.

Examines the role of racism within international relations bureaucracies during years of Zimbabwe diplomacy, before and after Independence.

The translation and edition of a Portuguese account of the coasts of Africa and their discovery, written c.

Analyses the lives and livelihoods of the female cashew shellers in Mozambique's capital in the colonial era, during which the industry grew to be a major export, and relates how the women played a fundamental, but previously underappreciated, role in the colony's economy.

Reframes the story of modern Ethiopia around the contributions of the Oromo people and the culturally fluid union of communities that shaped the nation's politics and society.

This volume examines Western India's contributions to the spread of ideas, beliefs and other intangible ties across the Indian Ocean world.

This book argues that long-distance trade in luxury items - such as diamonds, gold, cinnamon, scented woods, ivory and pearls, all of which require little overhead in their acquisition and were relatively easy to transport - played a foundational role in the creation of what we would call "e;global trade"e; in the first millennium CE.

A detailed examination of Ethiopian-Japanese relations from their beginnings in the interwar period through the Italo-Ethiopian War of 1935-6, drawing on Japanese, Russian, Italian, French and English sources.

The black spotthe one very black spotin the picture is the frightful mortality in the Concentration Camps.

This book outlines how African language media is affected by politics, technology, culture, and the economy and how this media is creatively produced and appropriated by audiences across cultures and contexts.